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LGBT WEEKLY - Mar 17 - Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pink Triangle Press already owns another gay dating app, Squirt.org, along with other brands serving the gay community. "This acquisition is part of our long-term goal to have greater exposure for Pink Triangle Press and to further grow and expand into an entirely new segment through the GuySpy social network and mobile app", according to David Walberg, Digital Media Chief Executive for Pink Triangle Press.

PR WEB - June 12 - GuySpy, the location-based gay dating app for, has reached one million members. Android app users are the most active (46% of traffic) followed by iOS at 36%. The website, GuySpy.com, currently gets 400K page views each day, (second in its category behind Adam4Adam, according to its Alexa Traffic Rank).

PR WEB - Jan 25 - GuySpy, a gay chat app, launches PEARL gay pride app for all global LGBT Pride events and Circuit Parties, as well as associated parades and activities. With PEARL, users are able to keep up to date on whats happening when, build and maintain a personal schedule, share information with social networks, and upload, view and share user photos.

QUEERTY - Sep 28 - GuySpy, the location-based gay dating app, has run into problems with Facebook’s Community Standards, which allegedly prohibit pornography and explicit nudity. But it seems that those standards don’t apply for everyone. Facebook has a strict policy against the sharing of pornographic content and imposes limitations on the display of nudity. GuySpy posted this pic to its page only to see it taken down within hours by Facebook. GuySpy found that their pic was nothing compared to the page “Hot boy sexy ladies of Dhaka”. This site has been up for five months. Perhaps, facebook is just a tad homophobic and sexist to boot! Exploiting the female body is just fine, but showing a beautiful man almost completely nude is a disgrace.

PR WEB - July 29 - Gay chat mobile app GuySpy is now offering their free travel mode. Travel mode lets users drop in on any city in the world and check out where the best restaurants and bars are, as well as make contacts.

TECH VIBES - June 20 - Vancouver has been on the forefront of the dating industry for years thanks to successes like Markus Frind’s industry disrupting POF dating site and Teligence’s domination of voice personals. With the emergence of mobile apps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Vancouver is leading the way again. This time in the gay market and a local startup is taking on the market leading hook-up app Grindr. GuySpy is a free app that includes all the features that Grindr offers in their paid app. GuySpy beats Grindr for traveling gay men on the move by allowing users to change their location and connect with others in advance of traveling. GuySpy isn’t just a hook-up app. They’ve got a website has become a community of its own with 400K visitors per month. 50K new users installed the GuySpy app last month with 55% of those users in North America. The app is currently getting 2K+ downloads per day and 20K users are interacting with the app daily.

by Rob LewisThe full article was originally published at Tech Vibes, but is no longer available.